Heir to the Crescent Moon
Sufiya Abdur-Rahman
University of Iowa Press
Sufiya Abdur-Rahman, the daughter of two Black Power–era converts to Islam, explores her father’s complicated relationship with Islam as well as her own while journeying from the Christian righteousness of Adam Clayton Powell Jr.’s 1950s Harlem, through the Malcolm X–inspired college activism of the late 1960s, to the unfulfilled potential of the early 1970s Black American Muslim movement. Abdur-Rahman weaves a vital tale about a family: Black, Muslim, and distinctly American.